Wine

This page is dedicated to Wine, the implementation of Windows API under Linux, and to applications running under Wine.

Tools

• MUST HAVE — WineTricks, a quick and dirty script to easily install redistributable runtime libraries (DLL), instead of using Wine ones.

For instance, to install VB6 Runtime:

sh winetricks vb6run

Applications

Exact Audio Copy

v0.99 prebeta5

Just run the installer under Wine.

v1.0 beta 1

Does not work out-of-the-box on Wine 1.2.x (need dev. version 1.3.11). See workaround on WineHQ:

cd .wine/drive_c/Program Files/Exact Audio Copy/
regsvr32 sql*

Internet Explorer 6

The best solution is to use the automated installer from IEs4Linux:

• First install Wine and cabextract- Careful, under Ubuntu Lucid 10.04, IEs4Linux does not work with wine1.2~1.2-0ubuntu6~lucid5. So you'll need to force the version of Wine:

sudo aptitude install wine1.2=1.1.42-0ubuntu4
sudo aptitude install cabextract

• Disable any AdBlocker proxy (or the installer will potentially fail downloading ADVAUTH.CAB)
• Download and run IEs4Linux. Use --no-gui to avoid the segmentation fault in Python:

wget http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/downloads/ies4linux-latest.tar.gz
tar zxvf ies4linux-latest.tar.gz
cd ies4linux-*
./ies4linux --no-gui

• Restore wine to its latest version (however this triggers some error dialog boxes when launching ie6 the next time):

sudo aptitude install wine1.2

• That's it! Use the desktop icon (chmod +x ~/Desktop/ies4linux.desktop if needed), or type ie6 in a terminal.

Status:

• (+) Rendering excellent
• (+) ASP, ActiveX works
• (?) Error while flash install, but install completes. Not tested.
• (?) JavaScript not tested
• (-) Heavy CPU load, hangs after exit — do killall -9 iexplore wineserver to kill the offending process)
• (-) Sometimes mouse cursor disappears
• (-) Privoxy interferences. It seems that Privoxy interferes with ActiveX, ASP... even when AdBlocking is disabled!

Internet Explorer 7

• See some instructions here. The HTML rendering seems to work fine, but ASP, ActiveX, JavaScript does not work.
• Note that IEs4Linux is also working on IE7. They have a Beta available (only HTML rendering engine works).

System

USB

See USB device support in Wine - winehq.org

• How to install USB patch (for USB dongle support)
• How to install manually USB drivers

Troubleshooting

Wine doesn't run program without executable bit

Error message:

The file '/home/user/Downloads/program_name.exe' is not marked as executable.
If this was downloaded or copied form an untrusted source, it may be dangerous to run.
For more details, read about the executable bit.

Solution:

• Change permission of the program to flag it as executable
• The previous solution is not always possible if say the program is on a read-only source. If so, one can run the program with wine explicitly:

wine program_name.exe

• Or edit the launcher, and remove the cautious-launcher:

gksu gedit /usr/share/applications/wine.desktop

Change from

Exec=cautious-launcher %f wine start /unix

onto

Exec=wine start /unix %f

CDROM not visible/mounted in Wine

Some miscellaneous notes:

• In Linux, audio CD are not mounted on mount points. This is because they don't have any real filesystem that can be browsed. So trying to auto-detect CDROM drive with an audio CD will likely fail.

Some workarounds:

• Insert a data cd. Rune winecfg. This will detect the CDROM. Leave the CD in and start the wine application. When application is started, insert the audio CD. Wine application should see the new CD (see [1])

Other references:

• Another solution would be to add a mount point for the cd in /etc/fstab (pay attention to rights, etc.). Even though the audio cd is not mounted, winecfg should be able to see the cd (ref [2]). Candidate line ([3]):

/dev/sr0         /media/cd   auto    ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0

• Google query site:winehq.org cdrom

Win16 apps not launching (Euroglot)

Error message:

err:module:attach_process_dlls "krnl386.exe16" failed to initialize, aborting
err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"C:\\windows\\system32\\winevdm.exe" failed, status c0000005

Solution is to enable back 16-bit segment (although might leak kernel stack address information) [4] [5].

Fix:

sudo sysctl abi.ldt16=1         # Or echo 1 > /proc/sys/abi/ldt16

To have at each boot:

echo "abi.ldt16=1" | sudo tee /etc/sysctl.d/20-wine-ldt16.conf

Miscellaneous

• Reviving Total Annihilation on Wine (Mixed-Mode CD)